Former Pool Director To Leave South Florida

August 7, 2002

Hallandale Beach — Lee Yarger, the aquatics director of Miramar and Hallandale Beach's former director of the municipal pool and the city's beach lifeguards, has left South Florida for a job at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind.

Yarger, a frequent guest speaker at the university, will be running the only bachelor's degree program for aquatics in the country.

Hired away from Hallandale Beach in May 2000, he spent his last day with Miramar on Friday.

"The offer came out of left field," said Yarger, who was contacted by the university in early July. "It's just one of those opportunities that I can't pass up."

Yarger, 33, came to South Florida in February 1999 to be the director for the Hallandale Beach municipal pool and the city's beach lifeguards.

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MDA group meetings are planned in August

Adults who have and parents of children who have muscular dystrophy and other related neuromuscular diseases are invited to attend several upcoming August support group meetings of the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

The August schedule of meetings is as follows:

The Broward parents and adult support groups will meet on Aug. 14 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Nova Southeastern University, 3301 College Ave., Davie, in the Terry Building, Physical Therapy Department, second floor, room 1247.

The Miami-Dade adult group meets from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Thursday at the MDA office, 7925 NW 12th St., Suite 122, in Miami. The Miami-Dade parents group meets from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Aug. 19 at Barnes Park, 3401 SW 72nd Ave., in the Leisure Activities Center, in Miami.